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Erin Wraithburn👻

@erinraeburn.bsky.social
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Scribbler of stories, bookworm, nocturnal hermit, nature & whimsy lover, ME/CFS & fibromyalgia+, vaxxed/masked, socially-minded lefty on Wolastoqiyik territory. (New Brunswick, Canada) She/her.

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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 11h
Went out on a rare excursion today to get some fun things for my niece's Spooky Season gift at Obscurity Shop and ended up finding myself this print. It's a *perfect* reward for finishing the manuscript I worked on for 8 years, which will unfortunately likely never get published.
A skull and ferns against a black background.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 22h
A server rack completely overflowing with an extremely chaotic, tangled nest of colorful wires—red, blue, yellow, green, and orange—spilling out in every direction. White text overlaid across the center reads, "How it feels inside my head."
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Daily bunny no.3459 is getting ready
A couple of bunnies haul a gigantic pumpkin home from a pumpkin patch, dragging it down the sidewalk in an old-fashioned red toy wagon. A third bunny rolls a smaller pumpkin sideways along the sidewalk just behind them
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 01/10/2026
Rather ironic that this proposed pipeline goes through places burnt to the fucking ground due to out of control forest fires.
Map of proposed route for new oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C. Coast.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
Projects that truly serve the national interest would lower costs, create good jobs, protect our environment and prepare us for the green economy of the future.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
The oil industry is unwilling to pay for this pipeline because even they know the world is moving away from fossil fuels. This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards.
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i can feel the spookiness in the air
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jackson Lamb interacting with a kid is as hilarious a juxtaposition as Reacher holding a kitten lol.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The story behind Orange Shirt Day
Orange shirt day was created by Phillish Webstad of Stswecemʼc Xgetʼtem First Nation. "I went to Mission for one school year in 1973/74. I had just turned 6 years old. I lived with my grandmother on the Dog Creek reserve. We never had very much money, but somehow my granny managed to buy me a new outfit to go to Mission school. I remember going to Robinson's store and picking out a shiny orange shirt. It had string laced up in front, and was so bright and exiting - just like I felt to be going to school! When I got to the Mission, they stripped me, and took away my clothes, including the orange shirt! I never wore it again. I didn't understand why they wouldn't give it back to me, it was mine! The color orange has always reminded me of that and how my feelings didn't matter, how no one cared and how I felt like I was worth nothing. All of us little children were crying and no one cared"
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Maxine Vee @maxinevee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September Rain 🌧️🍂 #art
A woman in a brown trench coat holdkng an umbrella and a suitcase stands beside a tree. She is looking at an old historical house in front of her. The tower of the house has one illuminated window
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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Notable that no one is suggesting replacing athletes with AI because everyone immediately recognizes that extraordinary human achievement is the point. Why is it that we devalue the arts so much?
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If we're going to talk about truth and reconciliation we should talk about Canada fighting First Nations in court. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/liberal...
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Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages o...
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're live with APTN News anchors Dennis Ward and Tiar Wheatle as they provide live coverage ahead of the national commemorative gathering, Remembering the Children. Watch: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...
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Remembering the Children | APTN News
For 160 years, Indigenous children were taken and put into institutions across Canada. September 30 is a day to remember the children.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Predictably, instead of trying to change hockey culture or lifting the ban on Pride Night jerseys, the NHL is hiring romance authors to write short stories that wink at the insinuation that NHL stars might be into each other without ever needing to support any actual gay people.
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sighborg👩‍🦼🫁🩸🩻 @sigh-b0rg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A lot of you can't stop conflating cognitive, psychiatric, & neurodevelopmental disabilities with immoral behaviour, bc it's easier to pathologize ppl for making shitty choices than it is to acknowledge we're all inherently capable (intentionally or not) of causing grave harm. You're not immune.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge and reflect on the deep intergenerational harm residential schools have caused to Indigenous families and communities. Art by Elaine Landry #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation
A handprint on an orange background. The handprint is broken into segments, inside of which are different symbols representing elements of Indigenous culture, including animal paw prints, landscapes with trees, and other images drawn from nature. There is a large black eagle feather on the left side of the handprint, and bird silhouettes appear in the upper left hand corner of the image. The words EVERY CHILD MATTERS appear at the bottom of the piece.
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yep, junior hockey is a prime example of this. The descriptions of hazing in Rick Westhead's book, We Breed Lions, were horrifying. Basically older players sexually abusing rookies. When boys are steeped in that toxicity it's no bloody wonder they go on to assault girls/women.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BIGGER IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER. I'm so tired of the machismo in Carney's rhetoric: Canada STRONG building BIG MASTERS in our own home These themes are repeated ad nauseum and there's this sense of masculine dominance that's so off-putting to me.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Liberal Government is slated to CUT ALL FUNDING for the Indian Residential School Resolution Health Support Program (IRS-RHSP) on March 31, 2028. There will be NO further funding allocated for these life-saving programs that support survivors and their families.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Residential school survivors should not have to plead for funding. Please read this thread to find out how the Liberal government is cutting funding to healing programs for residential school survivors.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This right here. Bang on. And if we care when premieres do it, we should care when the PM does. The standard shouldn't be different for him.
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted by Mark Carney last week after voting in favour of Jenny Kwan’s Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act. When will the Liberals stop punishing MPs for doing their job—and finally act to close this loophole?
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every chronically ill person deserves a Toad to take care of them.🥹
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meanwhile white nationalists just gathered on Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc land with a "Got Bones?" banner. Destroying these records erases vital evidence, history, and the painful accounts of people who deserve to be remembered. That serves the agenda of residential school deniers not reconciliation.
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Can I do it?” is a terrible measure of disability. Yes, I can do it. Can I do it repeatedly? Can I do it safely? Can I do it without support? Can I do anything afterwards? Can I do it tomorrow too? What does doing it COST? These tell me a lot more about my capability.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
Tonight I got one of my favorite shots of 2026, and it didn't involve the Full Moon. A composite both taken at 1/40th of a second and handheld. Natural lighting of a single crow watching their friends come to the murder to roost for the night. 🪶 🐦‍⬛
A single crow sits on the ledge of a parking garage as dozens of crows fly in the distance over a city scape and trees. theres no clouds around the city but there is a muted pink sky. above the city is a pink cloud layer
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
EWWWWWW! Pierre Poilievre should be arrested for crimes against humanity. That video is reason enough to ban AI.😖
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Phoebe Buffay's 'My Eyes!' from Friends
Alt: Phoebe Buffay's 'My Eyes!' from Friends
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just watched The Love Hypothesis and enjoyed it, even if it seemed a bit diluted compared to the book, though it's been a while since I read it and I try to forget it's Reylo fanfic lol. Still it was cute (mostly) and the fake dating awkwardness was funny. Really well cast too.🧪🧫🔬
Tom Bateman and Lili Reinhart as Adam and Olive in The Love Hypothesis. They're standing close together with a background of science symbols behind them.
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is really really annoying when someone provides a gift article (Yay! Thanks!), but the news website makes you sign up for an account to read it (Boo!). I don't care if it's a free account, I don't want to hand over my info. There shouldn't be strings attached to gift articles imo.
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thee agnes de buffle @vanadiumzest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
immunocompromised people don’t deserve to go out and have fun is another version of poor people don’t deserve to have iphones or cake marginalized people just have to endlessly suffer. only the privileged deserve nice things
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 21/09/2026
excited to share this illustration i did for 3 Oceans Puzzle Co.! i don’t do a lot of client work anymore, but who am i to resist puffins and a cute little newfie fishing village? you can get this as a really cool wooden puzzle on their site, and i have prints available too! (links below) #art
a fun colourful and textured illustration of one puffin bringing a beakful of fish to three other puffins on a cliff near a brightly-coloured fishing village on the atlantic ocean. humpback whales breach in the background near an iceberg, and a lighthouse shines through the fog. distant seagulls play among the clouds
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For such a funny show North of North sure packs an emotional punch. Season 2 is definitely living up to season 1, especially episode 6. Sad there's only 8 episodes.
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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression…
Soft toy cat
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CaffieneKitty @caffienekitty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What - and I say this with all due respect - the FUCK? 😂 torontosun.com/life/food/kr...
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Kraft Heinz Canada unveils Kraft Dinner-flavoured cream soda
Kraft Heinz Canada has partnered with Toronto's Solly’s Craft Soda to make a limited-edition cheesy cream soda, Read more.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Huh, imagine that. Apparently Meta employees aren't big fans of the pervert glasses. You know, the pervert glasses they're trying to sell to everyone else. Meta removed this video from Instagram. Wonder why? 🤔
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 23/09/2026
From @atlanticbirding.bsky.social, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Raptors, any bird of prey. So, here's a Great Horned Owl parent leaping out of a nesting cavity, most likely to seek a meal for her youngsters. #birds #owls
A Great Horned Owl with wings above her head begins to launch from a tree hole that was serving as a nesting cavity. One of her fluffy youngsters can be seen behind her.
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Whoa this is wild! Seems like this discovery could have a profound effect on ME/CFS research (along with the other conditions mentioned). Knowing hindbrain cells are different than forebrain cells and being able to replicate them to study and treat brainstem damage/dysfunction is a game changer.
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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[SPOILER: TED LASSO] Quote from a character on an injured athlete: "She needs to know she isn't disappearing in real time. She needs to know that she still matters." Oof. That line kicked me in the gut because that's exactly what having ME/CFS feels like, disappearing in real time.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Leaf ombré my daughter made 🍁🌼🌿
Breach leaves in autumn arranged on a tree stump so their colour shifts gently round a circle
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Judy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
AGAIN! You do not need to fear "superintelligent AI" "going rogue" & killing humans, when HUMANS keep putting regular, everyday shitty-assed, extremely error-prone "AI" into potentially life-&-death-crucial systems. It does not have to be "powerful" to do that! It can do that & still be very shitty!
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nearly a quarter of a million people experience living on the street in Canada each year but we have all the money in the world to house computers
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 19/09/2026
The feds will roll out the “special mediator” and then say it’s not them doing the dirty work. This bill will be an attack on the fundamental right to strike and bargain collectively. Don’t trust Hajdu.
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Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026
[Food, food intolerances] This has no tomatoes! I'm working on a massive infodump of a blog post about making nightshade free faux tomato sauce I decided to play around with a new variation I've been considering for a bit and holy heck it's incredible Am like...80% done writing #MCAS #NEISvoid
Photo of a cast iron pan cooking in progress. Image shows a very red sauce starting to form, alongside grated carrots and a couple bay leaves.

Red ingredient currently unnamed (will describe in more detail in this blog post I'm trying to finish)
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